SAMTAL@SU: On student listening and lecture comprehension
What is really going on inside a student’s head during a lecture?
Welcome! To a SAMTAL@SU lunch seminar with Joseph Siegel, linguist working at the English Department, Stockholms university.
Who is the seminar for?
The event is mainly aimed at researchers who teach within the Human Science Academic Area at SU. However of course we also welcome researchers who teach within the Science Academic Area.
Abstract
What is really going on inside a student’s head during a lecture? Using a novel footpedal device coupled with lecture recordings and post-lecture interviews, we focus on student comprehension during lectures with emphasis on English medium instruction (EMI). In EMI, students and/or teachers operate using English as an additional language, a situation that necessitates special attention when it comes to listening to and learning from lectures. After giving a brief overview of the ReMoDEL project (Real Time Monitoring of Dynamic English Listening), this session will share initial data from student voices and offer data-based pedagogic implications for university lecturers, regardless of the language(s) they use for teaching.
About Joseph Siegel
Joseph Siegel. Photo: Private
I teach in the English Department at Stockholm University with a special emphasis in teacher education, where my classes focus mainly on linguistics, language teaching pedagogy, teacher proficiency, and classroom practices. I have also taught courses on pragmatics, classroom interaction, research methodology, and action research for the language classroom.
I am currently Principal Investigator for the ReMoDEL project, which focuses on student listening comprehension in university classes and is funded by the Swedish Research Council. This project aligns with my broad research interest, which is the relationship between spoken output, listening comprehension, and learning. In educational contexts, this typically means the ways a teacher communicates knowledge to students and how students make sense of that input.
Sign up
Please, sign up for the lunch seminar / coffe/tea and a sandwich by March 20th
SAMTAL@SU seminars are arranged in collaboration with:
Department of Teaching and Learning
Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching
Last updated: 2026-03-26
Source: Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching